Re: **Official Drive-By Truckers Thread**
To be honest, he wasn't even that much of a rocker in DBT. Songs like Outfit, Decoration Day, Danko Manuel, Goddamn Lonely Love, etc, while they have some edge, they're kind of mid tempo songs. Maybe just more electric than acoustic, but I wouldn't say he was constantly writing these barn burning rock tunes. Songs like Never Gonna Change have always been a bit of the exception for him. I think he does what he does now so well, that a part of me wants to see him step a bit more out of the comfort zone because there are a number of songs on this record that while they are undoubtedly good, you can't help but feel they're tunes he could easily just fart out in his sleep. The term safe comes to mind for me. Which again, isn't inherently a bad thing because he's great at what he does, and obviously it's working to grow his cache and fanbase, so what the hell do I know.
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Got a fever and a beeker and a shot in the dark
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Last edited by mja271; 06-27-2017 at 06:11 AM.
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